Portable seat for water-closets



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Patented Dec. 17, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAROLD H. TITTMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PORTABLE SEAT FOR WATER-CLOSETS;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,606, dated December 17, 1889.

Application filed August 10, 1889. Serial No. 320,368. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'HAROLD H. TITTMA'NN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new'and useful Improved Portable Seat for Water-Closets and the Like,

of which the following is a full, clear, and

exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of portable covering or seat for water-closets, commodes, and chamber utensils for which I have obtained Letters Patent in the United States, dated July 9, 1889, No. 406,604, and which consists of two hinged flaps or sections having a central aperture and provided with hinged legs, which, when not in use for elevating the seat, can be folded up against its under side.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter claimed.

011 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan of my improved seat; Figs. 2 and 3, elevations thereof, taken at right angles to each other, showing the legs opened out for elevating the seat; and Fig. 4:, an inverted plan'of the seat with the legs folded up against its under side.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

i a represents a seat, made of wood or other suitable material, in two flaps or sections hinged together at b, and formed thereat with a central aperture 0, corresponding to the opening in the water closet seat or other contrivance to which the device is to be applied.

The seat a is provided, preferably, with 4 four legs 61, (two to each flap or section of the seat a,) which are composed of wire or other suitable material, and when in their folded position will overlap each other longitudinally of the seat-sections, thereby enabling legs to be used of greater length than the width of the respective seat-sections, each leg cl being preferably of a triangular-loop form, secured at its base to the under side of the seat a by hinges e, whereby, when the legs d are not in use for elevating the seat a, they may be folded inward and upward against the under side of the latter, as hereinafter more particularly referred to. The legs d of each flap or section of the seat a are so arranged that when opened out into the upright position for elevating the seat at their triangular planes are opposite to each other and parallel to the adjacent opposite edges of the seat a.

For locking the legs d in the upright position I arrange between and in a plane at right angles to the opposite legs 01 of each flap or section of the seat a a swinging bar or wire, which is composed of a base portion f, secured to the under side of the "seat a by hinges g, and of two inclined or raking portions f, having hooked ends f which, on swinging over the bar or wire f f on its hinges g, catch onto the outer inclined bars of the legs d and thereby lock the latter in position.

As a further means of holding and preventing an outward spreading of the legs d previous to their being locked, the ends d of their base or hinged portions between the hinges e may be bent over, so as to bear against the under side of the seat awheu the legs cl are on the upright position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1.

In using my device the, two flaps or sections of the seat a being opened out to the same level on their hinges b with the legs (Z and their catches f f f folded up against the under side of the seat a, as shown in Fig. 4, the seat a may be laid upon an ordinary water-closet or commode, and serves as a clean and dry protector thereto.

When applied to a chamber utensil, the legs'd are opened out on their hinges e, so as to elevate the seat a, With its aperture 0 above the opening of the utensil, in which position the lggs d are locked by the swing-catches .f'- WVhen not in use, the flaps or sections of the seat a, with its legs d and swinging catches ff f may be folded together on their respective hinges b, c, and gfor convenience or stowage or carriage.

I claim- 1. In aportable closet-seat, the combination of two hinged sections, each having a semicircular central opening and legs connected by extended hinges with the under side and at the opposite ends of said sections, and adapted to fold longitudinally of the respective sections and between the same, substantially as and for the purposes described.

of two hinged sections, each having a semicircular central opening and legs connected by extended hinges with the under side and at the opposite ends of, said sections, and adapted to fold longitudinally of the respective sections and between the same, said legs having outturned upper ends, adapted to bear against the under side of the seat-section where the legs are opened for use, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. In a portable closet-seat, the combination of two hinged sections, each having a semicircular centralopeningandpivoted skeletonlegs hinged on the under side and at the opposite 

